Or Kashti -
Haaretz -
"One invitation says "Remembering the murder - fighting for democracy."
The other says, "Yes to peace, no to violence." Both rallies` organizers
say they are the true representatives of "Rabin`s heritage."" - id

Prof. Rivka Carmi/Prof. Oren Yiftachel/Prof. David Newman - The "recommendation" of the Council For Higher Education (CHE) to close down the Department of Politics and Government of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - explicitly due to the political views of its lecturers - continues to arouse strong protests.

While the Swedish ship Estelle makes her slow way to Gaza, visiting numerous ports on the way and being warmly welcomed, hundreds of parlamentarians, prominent civil society actors and artists from different countries signed a petition against the siege, due to be published in the European and American media in a few days.

Ma’an - Israeli gunboats cruising off the Gazan shore make any venture into the Mediterranean a risky business. Nevertheless, the Gazan Sailing and Surfing Association now resumed its long-suspended activities. Four years ago Qatar donated ten small sailing boats, but only now were they allowed into the Strip. The youngest of those now sailing in them is the twelve-year-old Darin Kabariti.

Anna Baltzer -
IMEMC
"The US Campaign is thrilled to announce that the Quaker Friends Fiduciary Corporation (FFC) has become the first U.S. national fund to divest from Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Veolia Environment following concerns expressed by Palestinian rights advocates about the companies` involvement in the Israeli occupation. At last count, FFC held investments of more than $250,000 in HP and more than $140,000 in Veolia." ca

Daoud Kuttab - Huffington Post - A German-initiated documentary, Jerusalem24, would have chronicled 24 hours in the lives of Palestinian Jerusalemites and enabled them to present their case to the wide European public. Intended participants included musicians, artists, a six-year-old girl going to school for the first time, a guard at Al Aqsa Mosque, a Palestinian Catholic priest and nun as well as the Muslim family traditionally holding the key to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. All this was foiled by a a public boycott call issued, without checking with the participating parties and on the basis of erroneous information, by the unelected Ramallah-based Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).

Ma`an - Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails launched a one-day hunger strike on Tuesday in solidarity with four prisoners currently undertaking prolonged strike action. European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton called on Israel to "do all it can to preserve the health" of the detainees.

Activestills/+972 Magazine - Since demonstrations started in the first week of September, Palestinians have regularly blocked roads in major West Bank cities, protesting the high prices for food, fuel, and other basic necessities.Protesters also targeted the Oslo Peace Accords, which were signed with Israel 19 years, and particularly called for the abolition of the Paris Protocol, an annex to the Oslo agreement that preserves Israeli domination of the Palestinian economy.

Jessica Nero -
The Electronic Intifada -
"After hearing all the evidence, a jury acquitted the activists on the
basis that they had acted with the intention of preventing war crimes
against Palestinians." - id

Ta’ayush - "Ta’ayush is a grassroots movement working to break down the walls of racism, segregation, and apartheid by constructing a true Arab-Jewish partnership. For more then a decade, Ta’ayush has been working in area C of the occupied Palestinian territories, especially in the South Hebron Hills, to support Palestinian residents in their struggle to retain their homes and agricultural lands"

Youth against Normalisation - AIC - "Further campaigning against trade that supports settlement expansion is expected to take place over the coming months and can start to generate the public pressure that will be necessary to force governments and more big retailers to take comprehensive action"

by Ila Blufolski -
Akhbar Ha`ir
"The renowned theatre director Peter Brook, whose Bouffes du Nord theatre troop was supposed to appear this coming December at the International Festival for Plays of the Cameri Theatre with the play The Suit, today suddenly announced the cancellation of his arrival. The decision came following pressure by pro-Palestinian groups to cancel his participation as a protest against the occupation." ca

Vancouver2Gaza - AIC - "A call from the Union of Agricultural Work Committees in Palestine. Make 30 September a day of solidarity with the Palestinian farmers and fishers of the Gaza Strip and all throughout Palestine!"

Physicians For Human Rights-Israel - IMEMC - "Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al-Haq and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-IL) fear for the lives of the three remaining Palestinian hunger strikers held by Israel"